[undecipherable] [Letter from Capt, [undecipherable] Gates [undecipherable] 9^th Sept [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 3^d —] Dear Sir, Worthn Sept 20^th 1796 I Recev your order Do [undecipherable] last month and with In Your desire I can Inform You that Capt Bryant [Recalled?] to me for the Gunboats Informing that Their [was] that [undecipherable] which is the way that they [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from Col Edwards [undecipherable] to me which you will See By [undecipherable] at the [undecipherable] which you Have [undecipherable] me. I Have been Teach but am [Inclined] or I Should tell you he power I can [undecipherable] Bedding me a Stower and Have you[undecipherable] traced the found and Back is [undecipherable] and it is almost [undecipherable] I now Back up to You for Your assent for all the [undecipherable] You Can Give me in this [undecipherable] to that it may your [undecipherable] Hoping that You Will Done all in Your Power to Settle my acounts as [undecipherable] as Possible for I Defend [undecipherable] a Son [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] it for me if You think it Best for me to [undecipherable] to York I Will [undecipherable] any Time You Shall appoint I am Sir Your friend and Humbly Servant H[undecipherable] Hawes To Samuel Hodgdon Esq.